Re: managing multiple emacs

2015-06-10 Thread Will Parsons
On Tuesday, 9 Jun 2015, Nellis, Kenneth wrote: > From: Jim Reisert AD1C >> >> > 3. I don't have the Cygwin emacs-w32 package installed; my Windows >> version is outside the >> > Cygwin environment. >> >> Don't install GNU Emacs for Windows. Get rid of it. Install the >> Cygwin emacs-w32 packa

Re: managing multiple emacs

2015-06-09 Thread Vince Rice
The good reason is this problem goes away if you’re only using native (cygwin) emacs. The other good reason is that you’ll almost certainly spend more time trying to work around not using native tools than you would just installing them (and uninstalling the non-native one). (Spoken as a non-em

RE: managing multiple emacs

2015-06-09 Thread Nellis, Kenneth
From: Jim Reisert AD1C > > > 3. I don't have the Cygwin emacs-w32 package installed; my Windows > version is outside the > > Cygwin environment. > > Don't install GNU Emacs for Windows. Get rid of it. Install the > Cygwin emacs-w32 package instead. You can use this in Windows as long > as cyg

Re: managing multiple emacs

2015-06-09 Thread Jim Reisert AD1C
> 3. I don't have the Cygwin emacs-w32 package installed; my Windows version is > outside the > Cygwin environment. Don't install GNU Emacs for Windows. Get rid of it. Install the Cygwin emacs-w32 package instead. You can use this in Windows as long as cygwin/bin is in your Windows path. I di

RE: managing multiple emacs

2015-06-09 Thread Nellis, Kenneth
From: Tobias Zawada > > You can use the system-type variable: > > (when (eq system-type 'cygwin) > (menu-bar-mode 0)) > > But, I would rather start /usr/bin/emacs-w32.exe of cygwin. > Just soft-link > /etc/alternatives/emacs > to /usr/bin/emacs-w32.exe. Tobias: 1. Thanx! I now have a unifie

Re: managing multiple emacs

2015-06-09 Thread Tobias Zawada
> "Nellis, Kenneth" wrote: > > Ideally, I could unify the two .emacs files, but that presents another > problem: > I want the menu to be disabled in the character-cell Cygwin console (mintty) > where it is > useless, but it is useful in the Windows emacs, so how do I test within a > unified .ema

managing multiple emacs

2015-06-09 Thread Nellis, Kenneth
I have two versions of emacs on my Windows 7 box: Cygwin's and a native Windows one. Each one has its own .emacs file, distinguished by different HOME environment variables. This generally works: when I launch Cygwin's emacs it uses $HOME/.emacs; when I launch Windows emacs, It /generally/ uses